Are my buds forming?
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Weedoozie
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They're going to swell a little but not dense like they would under more watts of CFL's, or HID lights, or the sun
If you can, give them some sunlight! it'll help them get fatter buds. Only growing with CFL's makes for fluffy, light buds. Speaking from experience from 1st grow. Growing under the sun now, and my clone of a plant from my 1st grow is swelling up FAST out there and its only 3 weeks into flowering. The mother of the clone never got close to this under CFL's
If you can, give them some sunlight! it'll help them get fatter buds. Only growing with CFL's makes for fluffy, light buds. Speaking from experience from 1st grow. Growing under the sun now, and my clone of a plant from my 1st grow is swelling up FAST out there and its only 3 weeks into flowering. The mother of the clone never got close to this under CFL's
xican22
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dude you have a long way to go, add more side lites. More light more buds spots.i have a plant similar looking to yours. its taking forever.my plants are at end of week 13 of flowering buds now swelling since last week! Once plant stops growing new bud spots then the magic begins! Good luck!
High Time 420
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Them plants are not at 3 weeks of actual flowering, i think you mean 3 weeks of 12/12.
Well the light creates no heat at all because its a cfl. The room tempreture its usually about 20°c but do you think it would help by putting a little electric heater in there to keep the room warm but oviously not leave it on just keep topping it up. Im in all day so i can keep switching it on and off or just get a timer. Let me know what you think napa23
SmeLLyTreeZ
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Yes you are right, Jakey needs to check out the cfl section and do some reading... You should be flowering with 2700k cfl's and cfl's do put off heat btw...
I think he ment 3 weeks into 12/12 aswell..
stealthymurph
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man do what im going to do when i start flowering. get atleast a 150 watt hps light bulb and a light socket converter. thats the cheapst way to go and have some decent bud at the same time. i know from research. good luck.
You might have a source of light pollution . If you hours of darkness aren't, the flowering hormones won't be produced by the plant. Ensure your growing setup gets absolutely dark.
Your plants will grow and you will get some good, smoke-able herb; but CFL's just will never grow bud like you see in the pictures.
Your plants will grow and you will get some good, smoke-able herb; but CFL's just will never grow bud like you see in the pictures.
Another thing you can do in a pinch is go down to the home depot or lowes and pick up one of the those HPS type flood lights (the kind you mount on your house). They're made to be hard-wired into the house electrical system of course, but just buy yourself an new electrical cord and attach it yourself.
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